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USCIS just issued an interim final rule clarifying how it treats immigration benefit requests with invalid signatures, effective July 10, 2026. The agency has now codified that if a request is accepted and a signature is challenged later, USCIS “may” either reject or deny the request, and may retain the filing fee when it denies. According to USCIS, this will deter practices like copy‑pasted or software‑generated signatures, protect the integrity of the queue (especially in numerically limited categories), and let the agency recoup adjudication costs spent on improperly signed filings. For employers, applicants, and their #immigration lawyers, the message is simple: Signature compliance is now explicitly treated as a core eligibility issue, not a technicality—and the consequences for getting it wrong can include a denial, lost fees, and no opportunity to “cure” an invalid signature after filing. https://lnkd.in/eqjebwWY

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Who said this? Do you agree? Answer in the comments. “Artificial intelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. “Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Two famous naturalized US citizens, David Frum and Fareed Zacharia, discuss #inmigration and the meaning of America. A long but worthy discussion. https://lnkd.in/gMJZeShs